1.BTS-We Are Bulletproof (Part II)
After "No More Dream," BTS was one of the groups where I was like, meh. Then they went and released an MV for this Americanized urban smash and I was sold! The delivery, the clothes, the choreography, Jimin's hips... TEN! TEN! TEN!
2.Xia Junsu-Incredible
Not a big fan of the former TVXQ member's "Taratellegra" which was just a bit too "forward thinking" for me. "Incredible" however nice, the video is very colourful and diverse but the rap (shake your spaceship candy...really?) just really brings down the quality of the song, much like Flo Rida and Pitbull do whenever they feature on anything.
3.Brown Eyed Girls-Recipe
The pre-release single before the girls unleashed the beast, sounds like it should have been on Ga-In's "Talk About S." But that's not me hatin', just making an observation. Funky, smooth, perfect for mature late night drives through the city. And Miryo, how I live for your raps...
4.Brown Eyed Girls-Kill Bill
Their official comeback song, Brown Eyed Girls do the unexpected and tone it down instead of turning it up and making all the other K-Pop comebacks look basic as fuck.While sonically Kill Bill sounds like a basic, Western (as in westerns genre not Western)inspired song, the visuals are a comedic blend of the Taratino film it's based on and dash of "Abracadabra."
5.Girl's Day-Please Tell Me
Like the saying goes, if you have too much of a good thing, something pleasant becomes unpleasant because you have too much of it. Girl's Day has already come back twice and on the 30th, they released a special digital single. I guess Dream Tea is still trying to push them, even though they have proven themselves as a second-tier girl group but they need to give them a rest. I probably won't be ready for another Girl's Day comeback until late November/early December at the earliest.
6.Ailee-U&I
Ailee ripped off Gloria Gaynor and
7.AOA Black-Moya
AOA has finally broken up into a subunit! The band part of the group released their first single, "Moya". Moya is another throwback sounding tune, this time girl group sixties is what they aimed for, and they hit the mark. Also, whoever styled Youkyoung in the video, A+! Could someone explain the premise of the MV though and why the guy from SNL Korea looks so surprised when the girl points at the end?
8.Dynamic Duo-BAAAM (feat. Muzie of UV)
The only thing that I had heard from Dynamic Duo was their feature on Jay Park's "I Love You" and Choiza and Gaeko featuring on other people's tracks. "BAAAM" is a funky 80s-inspired bop that is quite easy on the ears and sounds like a response track to all the bad girl concepts K-Pop has been dishing out. However, the bad girl gone badder line sounds like bad girl gone better (which actually sounds a lot better imo).
9.B2ST-Shadow
While everyone else seems to be loving the newest from B2ST, I am having mixed feelings about it. On one hand, the song does something different by deviating from the typical fun and sunny singles that plague the summer months. On the other, the disturbing imagery in the MV like with Vixx's "Hyde" make it a bit less enjoyable. Song=ok, video=not so much.
10.B.A.P-Hurricane
B.A.P have been pumping out tunes like hell this year and I was a fan of all of them up until this point. The group has proven to be versatile in almost all the K-Pop concepts, even aegyo! But "Hurricane" just suffers from a major identity crisis, and not the good kind like Girl's Generation's "I Got a Boy". Also, the loofah's on fire thing wasn't funny the first a thousand times so...
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